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The Organ Grinders, Bill Fitzhugh. Which is getting more interesting than it initially started out. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, Hemingway. Been slowly reading it over the past so many months. And I just began
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin, which I am looking forward to very much.

WTDS is probably Gladwell's worst. The rest of his books are interesting (haven't read David & Goliath yet) and shake up some good ideas, but not always very accurate and he tends to exaggerate for the benefit of what he wants to demonstrate.

I have been reading quite a few books on baseball lately. I like Bill James a lot.

I've been slowly going through Les Miserables. Slowly, because I keep having to stop to highlight passages.
When I'm done I'll have more than enough to play Post here and I'll give you a Quote from This Book Too.

I do that, too, but I rarely underline stuff on my books. Instead, I keep a notebook (several, actually) for quotes and several others for all that I've read since 2003. It's amazing to look back and see when exactly you read every book. I remember when I switched to Goodreads from Shelfari it took me a few days to add every date for the books - the library was imported automatically, but I had to manually edit when I read each of them.

I just finished The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. I loved it. I highly recommend it. And I just started Mister Monday, the first book in the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix. I had never heard of it, but it was sent to me by my Reddit secret santa, so I'm checking it out.

I'm definitely going to read Ocean at the End. That sounds good.
Got this for Christmas from my oldest. It's for teenagers (it reads like it's written by and for teenagers), but she knows I like stuff like this still. Very thoughtful. Not very deep fun just a silly fun book. I like it so far.

I'm definitely going to read Ocean at the End. That sounds good.
Got this for Christmas from my oldest. It's for teenagers (it reads like it's written by and for teenagers), but she knows I like stuff like this still. Very thoughtful. Not very deep *but just a silly fun book. I like it so far.

I'm definitely going to read Ocean at the End. That sounds good.
Got this for Christmas from my oldest. It's for teenagers (it reads like it's written by and for teenagers), but she knows I like stuff like this still. Very thoughtful. Not very deep fun just a silly fun book. I like it so far.

I'm definitely going to read Ocean at the End. That sounds good.
Got this for Christmas from my oldest. It's for teenagers (it reads like it's written by and for teenagers), but she knows I like stuff like this still. Very thoughtful. Not very deep fun just a silly fun book. I like it so far.

I've Perks of Being a Wallflower movie and it wasn't my thing. But liked the acting and retro vibe. I would try to read the book, Irina, Because I want to see if it was adapted to screen correctly. It just doesn't fit right on the screen for some reason, for me.
The directing seems stilted.

It is on Kindle =) He'll be really happy people are reading it. We've broken up by the way but are good friends and I still want everyone to read his books because they're aces.

I've finished The Goldfinch - good but my third favourite out of her three books. Now reading all my uni books which aren't too bad this year but would rather be reading other things to be honest.
Island of Dr. Moreau by HG Wells - this is good but PRESENTLY is getting on my nerves. He says it all the time! Gah! Does War of the Worlds have the same problem? Really flinching every time presently pops up.
Got Jeanette Winterson 'Why be Happy When You Could Be Normal' on the go too which I like because of the subject matter but I still don't enjoy her writing much, there's just something about it that isn't my taste. I have to re-read 'Written On the Body' for another module too, which makes bloody 3 Jeanette Winterson books this year and that other one I read by her last year. They ought to rename my course 'Jeanette Winterson for Dummies'. Sigh. Only a few months left I suppose.

A wee bit into Emma by Jane Austen and already quite gripped by the social situations. Never read it before and was struck by how it reminded me of Clueless the movie. Googled it and yes the movie is loosely based on her book.

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